Uber Technologies, Inc.

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Joshua Jacob Inch

John Conway Badalamenti

Theodore Russell Sumers

Christopher Michael Sanchez

Jacob Rossi

Jordan Dale Andersen

Justin Rogers

Reilly Donovan

Diana Liao

Systems and methods for rendering VR content at a VR rendering device include identifying, by a content facilitator, that that first content presented via a first device to a user includes metadata indicating availability of second content. The second content includes at least one of a three-dimensional (3D) video, 360&#xb0; image, or virtual reality (VR) content. The content facilitator provides an interface element to the user at the first device responsive to the metadata indicating availability of the second content. The content facilitator receives a user selection of the interface element. The content facilitator provides access to the second content via a VR rendering device for the user responsive to the user selection. The VR rendering device is configured to render the second content.

Saving content for viewing on a virtual reality rendering device

Embodiments of a 3D web interaction system are disclosed that allow a user to select a content item from a browser, displayed in an artificial reality environment, and present a corresponding version of the content item in the artificial reality environment. The 3D web interaction system can create the version of the selected content item in different ways depending on whether the selected content item is associated with 3D content and, if so, the type of the associated 3D content. For example, the 3D web interaction system can create and present different versions of the selected content item depending on whether the selected content item is (a) not associated with 3D content, (b) associated with 'environment content,' or (c) associated with one or more 3D models.

3D interactions with web content

A network system, such as a transport management system, uses augmented reality (AR) to identify an approaching vehicle. Responsive to receiving a trip request, a trip management module matches the rider with an available driver and instructs a trip monitoring module to monitor the location of the driver's vehicle as it travels to the pickup location. When the driver's vehicle is within a threshold distance of the pickup location, an AR control module instructs the rider client device to begin a live video stream and instructs an image recognition module to monitor the video stream for the driver's vehicle. Responsive to the driver's vehicle entering the field of view of the camera on the rider client device, the AR control module selects computer-generated AR elements and instructs the rider client device to visually augment the video stream to identify the driver's vehicle as it approaches the pickup location.

Augmented reality assisted pickup

A network system, such as a transport management system, selects a pickup location for a trip and navigates a rider to the selected pickup location using augmented reality (AR). Responsive to receiving a trip request including an origin location, a pickup location selection module selects candidate pickup locations within a threshold distance of the rider client device. The pickup location selection module filters and ranks the candidates based on historical service data and location characteristics associated with the origin location as well as any history of pickups of the rider at the origin location and data from the trip request. The top-ranked candidate is selected as the pickup location and sent to the rider and driver client devices. An AR navigation module instructs the rider client device to visually augment a live video stream with computer-generated AR elements to navigate the rider from a current location to the pickup location.

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